{"id":1941737,"date":"2026-11-02T22:52:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1941737"},"modified":"2026-11-02T23:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:51:23","slug":"north-carolina-wins-michael-malones-coaching-debut-by-beating-western-carolina-80-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1941737","title":{"rendered":"UNC wins Michael Malone&#8217;s coaching debut by beating Western Carolina 80-72 (Watch post-game press conference)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Able scored 18 points and North Carolina make a decisive push in the final six minutes to win Michael Malone\u2019s coaching debut by beating Western Carolina 80-72 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/sports\/north-carolina-wins-michael-malones-coaching-debut-beating-western-carolina-80-72-nov-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Able scored 18 points and North Carolina make a decisive push in the final six minutes to win Michael Malone\u2019s coaching debut by beating Western&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1941753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1941737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1941737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941755,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941737\/revisions\/1941755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1941753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1941737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1941737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1941737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}